Re: upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6: unknown symbols
On 2005-04-21, Monique Y. Mudama penned:
>
> Amazingly enough (to me, who always dorks up at least one thing
> every kernel compile), it booted just fine. Except for ... well ...
> all these pesky unresolved symbols, seeming related to nfsd.
>
> What do I need to fix in my config to get rid of 'em?
>
Turns out I had unresolved symbols relating to nfsd, samba, and vfat.
Answering my own question. Lines 945 on down are to make vfat work
properly; I found those here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-298597.html
The rest was a guess from some near-miss search results; it looks like
certain things don't like being modules anymore.
Hope this helps someone =)
$ diff <old_config> <new_config>
4c4
< # Wed Apr 20 19:54:05 2005
---
> # Wed Apr 20 22:28:21 2005
917c917
< CONFIG_NFSD=m
---
> CONFIG_NFSD=y
921c921
< CONFIG_LOCKD=m
---
> CONFIG_LOCKD=y
923,924c923,924
< CONFIG_EXPORTFS=m
< CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
---
> CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
> CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
927c927
< CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
---
> CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
945c945
< # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437 is not set
---
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
968,969c968,969
< # CONFIG_NLS_ASCII is not set
< # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1 is not set
---
> CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
> CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
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